The Olympian Affair Quotes

“Keep friends,” Ferus said, his voice fading. “Keep them close. Treasure them. Friends are all the difference between a life of joy and a life of madness. Between you and your mother.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“I’ve found that it’s always better to have something and not need it than the other way around. Let’s be ready.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“Always discipline. Never humiliation.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“Bayard is a born hero, which is the larval form of a dead hero.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“the reward for a job well done is generally to be given a more difficult job.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“A leader who was conscientious and intelligent about doing nothing would be better than most,”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“Suffice it to say that this . . . this sham of a world we share is not now as it ever was.” Her eyes went distant. “It was beautiful once. And we, our kind, were its undisputed masters. We roamed the surface at will and took our bounty from the open earth beneath blue skies. We took our meat from living creatures, not from great stone vats. We grew our fruits in the earth itself. We built great cities and traveled at speeds that made even airships look slow.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair

“Is this a trick to get us to lower our guard, Skip?” Gwen demanded. “Why would the Aurorans send that thing to attack and have their own ship square off on it?” Grimm stared at the dreadnought for a long moment and thought about the plain, stocky man who commanded her. “Wars are fought by men, XO,” he replied slowly. “Captain Chavez probably doesn’t know what’s going on. Or maybe he does, and he isn’t going to stand around and let that monster kill thousands of unprotected souls in the skyport when he has a ship under him that might stop it.”
― Jim Butcher, The Olympian Affair